alongside the answers themselves. Cameron's difficulty is that he often doesn't know how he has arrived at the answers, even though the answers ar usually correct. Cameron and his family have recently moved house and Cameron is due to start at a new school. He regards it chance to make a fresh start and make some friends. But his mother, Alison, has a few worries concerning his lack of social skills. While she describes Cameron as "very she also acknowledges is socially naive and often oblivious to signals from people The new school specialises in dealing with students who, like Cameron, excel academically but find difficult relate to other students. And indeed, on his first day Cameron did make a new friend a boy called Tim mainly owing to shared dislike of Justin Bieber's music Recently, a maths professor from Cambridge University has been looking at Cameron's work. His advice to Cameron is perhaps surprising. Professor lmre Leader thinks Cameron should slow down, stop taking maths exams, and wait until he is eighteen before doing a degree. There's quite an important distinction,' he explains. "between taking lots of exams as fast as you can, and relaxing and enjoying the level that you are at what we call enrichment Professor Leader believes Cameron will better in the long run if he stops trying to progress so quickly. And although Cameron does want to finish his turrent degree, isn't making any academic plans beyond that. He goes to a weekly karate class after school. And recently, he went to a computer games convention with some friends from karate. Since turning fourteen, Cameron's feelings towards girls have changed. he puts it, "i started to like them instead being disgusted by them,' He's even been on a first date without his parents. And in general, he feels less isolated and unusual than he did before, 'There are other people like me high maths abilities, bad school lives I am not unit, Spooky.